The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear #1-2 - Atop the Fourth Wall

Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at the sequel to the sequel of John Carpenter's "The Thing!"

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Originally uploaded October 7th, 2013.

ORIGINAL INFO: The ultimate in alien terror… could not be here, so enjoy this terror by-product.

RUMINATIONS: Climate of Fear is still pretty bad, but I appreciate a lot of the stuff it was TRYING to do, at the very least. It wasn’t successful, mind you, but I like that it seemed to advance Macready’s character a bit, change up the location, and bring back the strongest part of the Carpenter Classic. It’s just a pity that it’s still riddled with plot holes, poor narrative choices, and artwork that fails in a lot of places.

Like I’ve said before, there just really wasn’t enough story in “Ghost of the Machine” to justify stretching it out past Halloween. The storyline already had horror themes to it, so I figured having a Halloween ending made sense, anyway, and by this point I had decided I was going to be doing the King of Worms arc next, which was also horror-themed, so it all worked out for a bit, going two years without the double-sized finale like I had done for the last several storylines.